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. 2023 Mar 26;13(4):596. doi: 10.3390/biom13040596

Table 1.

KIE and non-isotopic kinetic measurements from L8 vs. L8S8 rubiscos.

Strain Rubisco KIE (‰) VC (s−1) KC (μM) SC/O VO (s−1) KO (μM)
Synechococcus elongatus PCC6301 L8S8 22.42 ± 2.37 14.3 ± 0.71 235 ± 20.0 56.1 ± 1.3 1.10 983 ± 81
Candidatus Promineofilum breve L8 16.25 ± 1.36 2.23 ± 0.04 22.2 ± 9.7 36.1 ± 0.9 1.11 401 ± 115

KIEs were measured in this study using the substrate depletion method [25,35,36,37]; see Methods for more detail. Non-isotopic kinetic measurements are from [30]. VC and VO indicate maximum carboxylation and oxygenation rates under substrate-saturated conditions, respectively; KC and KO are Michaelis constants for the carboxylation and oxygenation reactions, respectively; SC/O indicates specificity, a unitless measure of the relative preference for CO2 over O2 and is calculated as SC/O = (VC/KC)/(VO/KO). Uncertainties on non-isotopic kinetics reflect mean ± s.e.m. from multiple experiments; see [30] for more detail. Error on KIEs reflect mean ± s.d. from model fitting uncertainty from one experiment; see Methods and Supplemental for more detail.